Project Management Manager

RONALD BURKHAMER

Montgomery, IL 336-***-****

**********@*****.*** www.linkedin.com/in/rburkhamer

DIRECTOR OF MANUFACTRUING OPERATIONS

Margin Improvement, High Technical Competence, Situational Leader

Highly adaptable proven leader of operations. History of multimillions of dollars of business created, developed, validated, commercialized, and manufactured under personal leadership. Natural entrepreneurial abilities to lead operational division to level of excellence that is profitable for business yet rewarding to employees and has significant positive impact to organization. Recognize strengths and weaknesses of organizational team and leverage individual talents to substantially improve financial position of business unit. Lead with principle of trust. Expertise includes:

Operations Strategic Development

Lean Project Management

People & Team Development

Profit & Loss Responsibility

Multi-facility Management

Chemical Batch Processing

Supply Chain Management

R&D, & Engineering Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

PARTYLITE, Batavia, IL 2008 to present

Senior Director, Manufacturing, Research, Development (2014 to present)

Tasked with full accountability for more than 250 employees in multifunctional organization consisting of Manufacturing, Engineering, Maintenance, QA/QC, R&D, S/R & Planning, and Finance groups. Realign, revitalize, and streamline operation into high-efficient, highly profitable business unit.

Improved P&L, in combined operations, $4.6M in less than 1 year by repositioning influential leaders in positions where success was feasible, allowing internal growth and employee empowerment.

Reduced material waste, taking % material lost from approximately 10% to less than 1% by facilitating implementation of GEMBA, 6S, and Lean programs.

Implemented SOP’s, revitalized KPI’s, and accountability programs, enabling efficiency improvements of 46% on labor variance to cost of production.

Achieved 98.5% unit-fill rate for manufacturing facility by mentoring and managing supply chain improvement activities.

Supported 14% sales-to-budget increase by leading R&D development team in effort to accentuate product line by providing highly specific product performance criteria.

Created product that surpassed competitive market offerings in record time by utilizing extensive partnerships with external suppliers, product marketing, sourcing, and executive management.

Director, Process Engineering, Research & Development (2012 to 2014)

Directed multiple facilities, both domestic and international, with oversite of company technical organizations, including all corporate and capital-project management and CI responsibility.

Directed all activity in the planning, implementation, and optimization of manufacturing expansion from $17M to $32M.

Applied statistical analysis of LIMS data, resulting in improved product performance rate from 84.7% to 99.2%.

Facilitated all qualification activity needed to win a major contract manufacturing initiative with Proctor & Gamble securing a multimillion dollar account.

Pioneered lean transformation for Batavia facility, initiated 6S, standard work, and cellular manufacturing, reducing manufacturing WIP 22% and improving lead time to costumer.

Led catalog development teams for both US and UK through several key initiative launches, most notably Glolite® jar forms, selling 200K units in 1 month, winning “Most Innovative Supplier for the Year”.

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Director, Process Engineering, Research & Development (Continued)

Collaborated with Category Design and Development, marketing directors, along with operations and marketing vice presidents, devising 3-year strategy for innovation and new-product portfolio launches $700M S&OP.

Senior Manager, Manufacturing Process Engineering (2008 to 2012)

Presided over all new engineering initiatives and product/production process validations. Ensured timely improvement project executions and achieved new-product introductions and qualifications.

Executed all technical activities needed for launch of new product line, selling $43M in 2 years.

Optimized production process, dropping labor cost $500M on $1M new-product capital venture.

Served, as manufacturing/IRD representative, on corporate-wide, new-product redesign team, condensing new product launch timing from 2 years to less than 12 months.

Guided all new formula innovations for both Batavia and Cumbria facilities, decreasing formula cost $1.14M.

Developed and implemented a metallic pigment over coating process that resulted in a multimillion-dollar product line.

Reduced nonconformities to less than 0.1% by realigning QA test lab into process engineering lab.

BLYTH HOME SCENTS INTERNATIONAL, Elkin, NC 2000 to 2008

Senior Manager, Process Improvement, Quality, Product Development

Oversaw all technical activity for $70M-budget domestic facility with direct supervision of 20 employees and continuous improvement project oversite of multiple international facilities.

Redesigned, for manufacturing, nearly every product formulation for Elkin, NC, and Monterrey, Mexico, facilities, substantially lowering material cost and improving production yields.

Invented 2 new products, leading to patents.

Steered team of process engineers, process technicians, and manufacturing operators in various improvement activities, lowering manufacturing cost more than $2M over span of personal career.

Cooperated with Blyth Asia, Monterrey, Mexico, and European manufacturing partners in development of new product initiatives, most notably a lacquer/metallic over coat for multiple consumer product forms and containers.

Combined process and quality assurance groups into 1 functional support group, enhancing response from support functions and allowing process troubleshooting efforts to coincide with QA auditing.

Experience prior to 2000

Mastered multiple complex organometallic, hydroformulation, and oxidation reduction reactions and Supported ISO9000 chemical production of organic phosphates up to as large as 2000kilo.

EDUCATION

Master of Business Administration (MBA), Leadership Focus

AURORA UNIVERSITY, Aurora, IL

(Completion 2018)

Bachelor of Science (BS), Chemistry, Minor: Physics

GLENVILLE STATE COLLEGE, Glenville, WV

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Project Management Professional Certification

Continuous Improvement Leadership

Project Sponsor & PMO Officer

ASQ - Green Belt Program Management, Kaizen, TQM, TPM, Six Sigma, FEMA, DMAIC

Chemical Processing Fundamentals

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